Sentences with phrase «outer continental»

Summary: This is a Student Trainee, Engineering Tech (Petroleum) position in the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region.

Our objective was to determine whether the exploration, development and production of natural gas in the federal outer continental shelf had created an economic burden on the State of Louisiana.

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) is an extension of the Longshoreman and Harbor Workers» Compensation Act to include oil rig workers.

For example, if an offshore worker is injured on a fixed platform, their case is likely covered by the workers» compensation laws of the nearest state under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

The potential benefits from future energy production from this week's auctioned leases — jobs, economic growth and revenue for government — also suggest a couple of «what ifs»: What if the federal government included the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in its next five - year leasing plan, the first step toward development in those areas?

Last week we posted on a new study showing tremendous economic and energy benefits to opening the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to offshore oil and natural gas development.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has newly revised resource estimates for the Atlantic outer continental shelf (OCS).

According to a study by Quest Offshore Resources, developing oil and natural gas on the North Carolina outer continental shelf could bring significant benefits.

The researchers conclude: «The energy discarded in wasted food is more than the energy available from many popular efficiency and energy procurement strategies, such as the annual production of ethanol from grains and annual petroleum available from drilling in the outer continental shelf,» and so minimizing wasted food means minimizing overall energy consumption.

Today the Department of Interior announced a streamline policy of approval for offshore wind power in outer continental shelf areas off New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

The most ardent drilling opponents, who contend that exploration of the outer continental shelf puts oceans at risk without producing short - term relief from gasoline prices, said there is still time for the next president and future Congresses to work out a new compromise before oil rigs are erected within sight of the nation's coasts.

Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 2018 budget increases spending for expanding offshore oil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

For example, samples taken during the Western Arctic Shelf - Basin Interactions project in 2002 in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas showed that large - bodied copepods are prevalent on the outer continental shelf.

«The Energy Policy Act of 2005 similarly speaks directly to the production of fossil fuels... («The purpose of this section is to promote natural gas production from the natural gas hydrate resources on the outer Continental Shelf and Federal lands in Alaska»); id.

In February 2009, the SAFMC established eight no - bottom - fishing zones on the outer continental shelf between southern North Carolina and the Florida Keys ranging in area from 27 to 514 km2.

§ 15910 (a)(2)(B)(«purpose of this section is... to promote oil and natural gas production from the outer Continental Shelf and onshore Federal lands»): id.

The mission of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is to manage the development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.

The pink areas of this map are the outer continental shelves on which methane hydrates can be found.

Today EIA filed a comment in opposition to the unprecedented plan by the administration to open 98 percent of the American outer continental shelf to oil and natural gas activity.

Yet the Obama Administration uses these forecasts as the basis for drilling in the Arctic and elsewhere on Federal Lands and the Outer Continental Shelf.

It contains 21.5 Outer Continental Shelf blocks.

DOI will publish its «Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) and Request for Interest (RFI) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore North Carolina» in the Federal Register on August 16.

Despite the fact that more than 40 million acres are already available for development along the outer continental shelf (OCS) of the United States, talk of opening up the remaining protected coastline to energy exploration has become about as risky as the no - no topics of religion and politics.

To all those who have fought for decades to protect the precious environment of our outer continental shelf, it is time to stand up and stop this dangerous plan.»

According to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration, expanded U.S. off - shore drilling in the outer continental shelf would only reduce gas prices by about 3 cents per gallon 20 years from now1.

The map below makes clear that while there's talk in Washington of an all - of - the - above approach to energy, there's much to be done in applying that concept to our outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas reserves.

The White House's key energy policy document cites the EIA's oil demand forecast, and its outlook for steady oil demand decades into the future, as the basis for the latest round of lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf, which includes areas in the Atlantic Ocean offered for the first time in decades together with new areas made available north of the Arctic Circle in the Chukchi Sea.

in the Outer Continental Shelf, which includes areas in the Atlantic Ocean offered for the first time in decades together with new areas made available north of the Arctic Circle in the Chukchi Sea.

Last week a group of Republican U.S. House and Senate members signed onto a letter urging the Interior Department to increase access to energy reserves on the nation's outer continental shelf.

Environmentalists have been urging him for months to use Section 12 (a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to block offshore drilling.

The Outer Continental Shelf leasing program deferred final decisions about additional leasing in the Chukchi until 2016 (and the Beaufort a year later).

I hope that we can repeat our bipartisan success of the previous Congress in developing a bill that recognizes the need to develop the rich resources of the outer continental shelf but also to minimize the potential impact on the marine and coastal environment and on human health and safety.

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday evening, 16th February, for a package of four energy bills that if enacted will greatly expand U. S. oil and natural gas production on federal lands and the Outer Continental Shelf plus permit the Keystone XL pipeline.

Another title in the bill would require the Administration to lease large Outer Continental Shelf tracts for oil and gas exploration off the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf coasts that have the highest potential.

On July 12, Secretary Salazar suspended certain deepwater drilling activities based on his authorities and responsibilities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to ensure safe operations on the OCS.

Let's say we do it — drill off Virginia's coast and extract the 130 million barrels of oil and trillion cubic feet of natural gas that a federal agency estimates are ripe and ready in the Outer Continental Shelf.

-- For the purposes of coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations for the Alaska outer Continental Shelf region, the Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer of such funds as are necessary to --

«(A) review the areas of the outer Continental Shelf that have been designated as restricted from exploration and operation to determine whether the areas should remain under restriction; and

In January 2018, Interior's Zinke went much further: for Trump's 2019 - 2024 energy plan, he proposed opening drilling on the entire outer continental shelf, on all four coasts.

«By proposing to open up nearly the entire OCS [Outer Continental Shelf] for potential oil and gas exploration, the United States can advance the goal of moving from aspiring for energy independence to attaining energy dominance,» explained Vincent DeVito, the Interior Department's Counselor for Energy Policy.

(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

-- The Secretary shall carry out the inventory and analysis under subsection (a) in 3 phases, with priority given to all or part of applicable planning areas of the outer Continental Shelf --

BOEM's Renewable Energy Program — In 2009, Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the final regulations for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Renewable Energy Program, which was authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct).

(Sec. 383) Allows a lessee to withhold from payment any royalty due and owing to the United States under any leases under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil or gas production from a covered lease tract if, on or before the date that the payment is due and payable to the United States, the lessee makes a payment to the state of 44 cents for every $ 1 of royalty withheld.

-- The requirement that the Secretary of the Interior carry out the inventory required by the amendment made by subsection (a) shall not be considered to require, authorize, or provide a basis or justification for delay by the Secretary of the Interior or any other agency of the issuance of any outer Continental Shelf leasing program or amendment to the program under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344), or any lease sale pursuant to that section.

«The Democratic leadership can say they tried to open some (Outer Continental Shelf) areas for production, but by eliminating the revenue - sharing provision none of the states will want to have production off their shores.

mantras to great effect, putting pressure on Democrats at all levels to open up the outer continental shelf (OCS), the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and push oil shale.

However, the restrictions on American offshore oil and gas production has always been precarious; the executive branch has complete authority to decide what happens in the federal waters of the outer continental shelf, from 3 to 200 miles out to sea.

(Sec. 357) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to inventory, analyze, and report to Congress on oil and natural gas resources beneath all of the waters of the United States Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).